HP Pavilion with XP?

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I have a brand new Pavilion 8075 Media Center which is preinstalled with
Vista. I need to have an XP install as well (for testing purposes) so
I tried to install it on a new hd. Got blue screen in the first non-gui
part of the install procedure. HP Support told me that this pc was
designed for Vista and they do not support any XP issues. Sounds weired,
but I don't get any further with them (or with the xp install).

Anyone has experience of this or a clue of what's to be done?
 
Zeke said:
I have a brand new Pavilion 8075 Media Center which is preinstalled
with Vista. I need to have an XP install as well (for testing
purposes) so I tried to install it on a new hd. Got blue screen in the
first
non-gui part of the install procedure. HP Support told me that this
pc was designed for Vista and they do not support any XP issues.
Sounds weired, but I don't get any further with them (or with the
xp install).
Anyone has experience of this or a clue of what's to be done?
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You may run into trouble - being a proprietary computer HP may have decided
they would have hardware in it that has NO SUPPORT for Windows XP.
 
Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

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I have a brand new Pavilion 8075 Media Center which is preinstalled with
Vista. I need to have an XP install as well (for testing purposes) so
I tried to install it on a new hd. Got blue screen in the first non-gui
part of the install procedure. HP Support told me that this pc was
designed for Vista and they do not support any XP issues. Sounds weired,
but I don't get any further with them (or with the xp install).

Anyone has experience of this or a clue of what's to be done?
 
I recently did just the same thing for a customer on an M8000 series Vista
PC, you need to provide the SATA controller drivers via floppy using the F6
option during setup, these drivers can be found on Intel's website. I wasn't
paying attention the first time I booted off the XP disk and missed the F6
option and ended up with a BSOD, I had no problems after providing the
proper driver using F6.
 
David B. skrev:
I recently did just the same thing for a customer on an M8000 series
Vista PC, you need to provide the SATA controller drivers via floppy
using the F6 option during setup, these drivers can be found on Intel's
website. I wasn't paying attention the first time I booted off the XP
disk and missed the F6 option and ended up with a BSOD, I had no
problems after providing the proper driver using F6.
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Thanks - that was exactly what I missed as well. I'll try that.
 
Zeke said:
I have a brand new Pavilion 8075 Media Center which is preinstalled with
Vista. I need to have an XP install as well (for testing purposes) so
I tried to install it on a new hd. Got blue screen in the first non-gui
part of the install procedure. HP Support told me that this pc was
designed for Vista and they do not support any XP issues. Sounds weired,
but I don't get any further with them (or with the xp install).

Anyone has experience of this or a clue of what's to be done?
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Thanks for all your input. I will consider to use VPC, and I'll try the
F6-install. But the bottom line is - is there anyone that has experience
of XP running on a Pavilion 8075?
 
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